In what his lawyers called a clear violation of a Wisconsin man's first amendment rights, Thomas Smith was arrested in 2012 and charged with disorderly conduct and criminal use of a computer for cursing at Village of Arena police on their Facebook page.
“Fuck ths fucking cops,” “fucking racist basturds an fucking all of y'all who is racist,” Smith wrote in response to a post he felt was racist, according to Motherboard.
But horrible spelling is not a crime, and neither is speaking out to criticize authority in this country, even if that means cursing them out on the internet.
Smith sued the police department for $35,000, and on Wednesday he won, according to an announcement from his lawyers.
From the Aquino law firm's blog:
Justice served.
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